Deposit Insurance, Bank Ownership and Depositor Behavior

Sümeyra Atmaca, Karolin Kirschenmann, Steven Ongena and Koen Schoors

Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: We employ proprietary data from a large bank to analyze how – in times of crisis – depositors react to a bank nationalization, re-privatization and an accompanying increase in deposit insurance. Nationalization slows depositors fleeing the bank, provided they have sufficient trust in the national government, while the increase in deposit insurance spurs depositors below the new 100K limit to deposit more. Prior to nationalization, depositors bunch just below the thenprevailing 20K limit. But they abandon bunching entirely during state-ownership, to return to bunching below the new 100K limit after re-privatization. Especially depositors with low switching costs are moving money around.

Keywords: deposit insurance; coverage limit; bank nationalization; depositor heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G28 H13 N23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2020-12
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Working Paper: Deposit Insurance, Bank Ownership and Depositor Behavior (2021)
Working Paper: Deposit Insurance, Bank Ownership and Depositor Behavior (2020)
Working Paper: Deposit insurance, bank ownership and depositor behavior (2020)
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